East Austin Studio Tour at The Future Front House!
Head to The Future Front House for one of our official stops on Big Medium’s Austin Studio Tour—a new group show curated by Taylor Davis.
Stop by anytime between 12 and 6 PM CT on November 11, 12, 18 and 19.
All are welcome. Scroll for more details.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Portal explores the spaces we make and keep to capture glimpses of community, culture and the self.
Featuring work by five multidisciplinary women artists living and working in Austin and Dallas, Texas—all on display within The Future Front House—Portal is a space within a space.
A window within a window.
A figurative and metaphorical invitation to leave this dimension and welcome the depth, breadth and beauty of each artist’s reality.
meet the artists
taylor barnes (she/her) is a contemporary fibers artist and ceramicist. Her work consists primarily of mixed media fibers techniques and charcoal on cloth. barnes work takes on subjects of spirituality, oral histories, power, and bell hooks philosophies of object and subject. Her figures being understood as her spiritual guides unbound by time, barnes is lead to construct spaces in which their discoveries of truth are to be revealed.
barnes received her MFA in Fibers from the University of North Texas. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions at 154 Contemporary African Art Fair (Harlem) Big Medium (Austin), Erin Cluley Gallery (Dallas), and Martha's Contemporary (Austin). Her work has been collected by the Mead Museum, board members of the New Museum, and families of professional athletes. Her numerous group exhibitions include Untitled Art Fair (Miami), Dallas Art Fair (Dallas), and Temporary Collective (Dallas). barnes received the Dallas Museum of Art's Arch and Giles Kimbrough Fund Award 2021 and was honored with the Sylvia Houlgand Emerging Artist Award for Make Art with Purpose 2020 and multiple art focused scholarships throughout her education. Her work has been featured on Artsy, Glasstire, KERA and The Dallas Morning News.
barnes lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Anahita (Ani) Bradberry (she/her) is an Austin-based artist creating sculptural situations with rare gas plasma light. Raised in Pittsburgh, PA, she earned an MA in Art History in 2015 in Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art from American University (Washington, DC), conducting primary research in Tokyo with the help of a Mellon Grant and lecturing on her research in photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. She later assisted in archival projects at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. During her time in DC, she co-founded DIRT: an accessible online platform for unconventional art criticism and intimate artist interviews. Concurrently, her focus turned to an experimental studio practice as she learned neon glass bending in DC and NYC. She has been featured in exhibitions at Dominique Gallery (LA), Two Six Eight Bowery (NYC), the Washington Project for the Arts (DC), Transformer (DC), VisArts (VA), the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (DC), George Washington University's Gallery 102 (DC) and CICA — the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea).
Elizabeth Hudson (she/her), b. 1989, Los Angeles, is a mixed-media surrealist painter from Dallas, Texas. She studied studio art at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and art history at the University of Texas at Austin. After leaving college, she created 30 commissioned murals for homeowners and businesses in Dallas, Scottsdale, and Culver City, before eventually returning to Austin to pursue painting as a professional career. She currently has a studio at Canopy artist studios in Austin.
Alexis Hunter (she/her) is an identity-based, multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Austin, TX. She earned her BFA from Texas State University in Studio Art, with a concentration in painting, graduating summa cum laude (2022). Recent solo and group exhibitions include INVASIVE SPECIES, ICOSA Collective Gallery, Austin, TX; Own it, examine it, and confront it head on, DORF, Austin, TX; Collective Thoughts, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and SBMRPVII, the Carver Museum, Austin, TX. She was selected to participate in Big Medium’s LINE Residency (2022), vol. 2 of the George Washington Carver Museum's Small Black Museum Residency Project (2022) and, most recently, Mass Gallery’s Hot Box Residency (2023). Alexis is a member of the artist-run collective, ICOSA, and a painting instructor at The Contemporary Austin's Art School at Laguna Gloria. She was named The Austin Chronicle’s Best Visual Artist of 2023 and was a finalist for Big Medium’s 2023 Tito’s Prize. Her work explores self-image through racial identity, mental health, the female body, and the male gaze.
Grace Nicole (she/her) is a Dallas based photographer whose work focuses on many aspects of black identity. Her main goal is to highlight and explore honest experiences of the black woman's experience in America. Grace's art uses texture and beauty as a way for her to add depth and also give honor to the beauty and pain of her experience. As her Southern Creole lineage is the nucleus of who she is, as a lot of her lineage peaks out in her thought provoking aesthetic choices. She captures all of her images through film and prefers her work to be predominantly unfiltered. Although it is but a small-part of a big microcosm, it is her experience and how she sees the black femme.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Taylor Davis (she/her) is an independent curator and landscape designer living in Austin, Texas. After receiving her masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin she went on to work for a local Austin design firm, TBG partners where she works on projects such as parks, multifamily amenity courtyards, hospitals and trails. Her curatorial practice is interested in the nuance of artistic practice as it relates to unique life experiences. Working with different galleries she has curated group art shows in San Francisco and Austin. She serves as a board member of the Trail Conservancy in Austin and serves as the board chair for their Arts and Culture Committee and has worked with local Austin arts and culture groups such as AIPP and Future Front Texas.
HOW TO ATTEND
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Every pledge made with your ticket will directly benefit the administration of our Creative Future of Texas Fund, a micro-grants program for emerging creatives and small business owners in Texas.
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PREPARE YOUR VISIT TO THe future front house
The Future Front House is located at 1900 E. 12th Street within the historic East 12th Street District.
WHERE TO PARK — The Future Front House has a large parking lot across the street and is directly accessible by bus line. Carpool, if you can!
WHAT TO DO — The Future Front House is located within the historic East 12th Street District, which is home to many other creative spaces and businesses, as well as organizations like Six Square. Explore the District while you’re around.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES — ASL interpreters can be provided upon request. Si necesita traducción al español para participar en este evento, envíenos un correo electrónico a hello@futurefronttexas.org.
IMPORTANT COMMUNITY NOTES + GUIDELINES —
All Future Front staff, volunteers and guests will be required to practice mutual respect, as well as demonstrate an alignment with Future Front’s guidelines and values.
All Future Front sessions are currently held online, outdoors or in open-air spaces where quality air flow is possible, ADA compliance is prioritized and assisted mobility devices can be utilized.
All Future Front sessions follow capacity limits to reduce crowding of any kind.
All guests are required to practice mutual respect and social distancing, as well as follow APH’s COVID-19 Guidelines, which currently include:
At all levels, people can wear a mask based on personal preference, informed by their personal level of risk.
People with COVID-19 symptoms and/or exposure to someone with COVID-19 should not participate in an in-person Future Front event or visit a Future Front location until they test negative and/or they are no longer at risk.
People with a positive COVID-19 test and/or not fully vaccinated should not participate in an in-person Future Front event or visit a Future Front location until they test negative and/or they are fully vaccinated and no longer at risk.
GOT QUESTIONS? Shoot us a note at hello@futurefronttexas.org. We're happy to help and will get back to you!
BEHIND OUR AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR POP-UP
About Future Front — Homegrown in Austin, Future Front is a community space and exhibition series—with women and LGBTQ+ creatives at the front. As an arts and culture nonprofit, we’re mother to The Front Market, The Front Festival and The Work Conference. Beyond our flagship exhibitions, we host year-round shows, gatherings and workshops at our creative community space in Downtown East Austin. Everybody and every body are welcome. You’re invited to join us, of course. You can learn more about how it all works, our team and what we do: futurefronttexas.org
About Austin Studio Tour — Austin Studio is a citywide artist studio tour programmed by Big Medium.